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"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

Oh yeah, I saw that video -- good one. So you were actually on the train when that happened?

Nah, it was afterwards. I heard about it all over the place, but had never seen the video. And then when they were rehashing it, I came home and scoured youtube to see what they were talking about and sure enough, it was them.

We were all sitting in the same vicinity, when I saw them. Some guy was hitting on them, and he mentioned seeing them on youtube, so that's how it all started. I wasn't intentionally eavesdropping but they were yelling over my music.

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

Youtube should have their own prime time awards show. But that would only encourage the bad behavior. I think part of the source of the incivility in the fast food restaurants is the presence of cameras and imbeciles with no more imagination than to copy other "outrageous" behavior.

After all, solo is saying these girls achieved a sort of celebrity.

"Normal" people acting out. This has got to stop. All my years on the NY subway I saw very little incivility. Eccentricity is a different category. Also, local color.

Insanity is yet another category. Shoe licker might be insane. The buzz on naked racist is schizophrenia. Seen lots of crazies on public transport and in train stations around the world.

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ďFrom each, according to his ability; to each, according to his needĒ 1875 K Marx

This still cracks me up. No one acts disturbed that there is a rat on the Subway, they just watch him run around, hell one guy just lifts up his foot and casually puts it back down as the rat goes by. Big-ass rat that is. Me, I would have been screaming and banging on the doors to get out.

"Normal" people acting out. This has got to stop. All my years on the NY subway I saw very little incivility. Eccentricity is a different category. Also, local color.

Insanity is yet another category.

But who's to say that they suffer from any (mental) disorder at all? As you said, their behavior might just be normal for them

The only reason I say this, is that I recently heard an interview where someone said that it's not necessarily detrimental to exhibit some of the characteristics of someone (diagnosed) with a personality disorder.

Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

I don't think I've talked about this previously on this forum, in fact I don't talk about it much period because it was so fucking disturbing. Right after 9/11 and during the height of the anthrax attacks (as you may recall the big fear was that it would be disbursed in NYC's subway tunnels) I saw not one but two people jump in front of oncoming subway trains and die. Actually there was even a third person but I didn't really witness it, but I was on the subway platform right after they cleaned up the body so it figures into the picture.

I don't think I've talked about this previously on this forum, in fact I don't talk about it much period because it was so fucking disturbing. Right after 9/11 and during the height of the anthrax attacks (as you may recall the big fear was that it would be disbursed in NYC's subway tunnels) I saw not one but two people jump in front of oncoming subway trains and die. Actually there was even a third person but I didn't really witness it, but I was on the subway platform right after they cleaned up the body so it figures into the picture.

As you can imagine I had to up my klonopin intake, it was that bad.

Holy craaap! What do you say about something like that? I'm sorry you experienced that.